Re: [johannes@caldera.de: Comments on Chapter 17 (cron) of the LSB Spec]

[Bjornar Ness <bjornar.ness@taide.net>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:37:48AM -0500, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
[cut away alot I disagrea with, agrea with Thorsten's reply]
>  5. /etc Name space pollution
>  
>     The actual proposal enforces 5 cron related directories in /etc.
>     (Or even 6 if our cron script repository idea is used). This can
>     get even worse, if somebody wishes more periodic scripts directories,
>     say /etc/cron.biweekly.

Absolutely true. We need a cron.d ... but
>  
>     This is why we propose to keep the historical place /etc/cron.d/
>     and put the following directories inside:
>  
>     /etc/cron.d/
>                &
>                +-Monthly  periodic scripts directories (Capitalized Names)
>                +-Weekly
>                +-Daily
>                +-Hourly

...I disagrea to the full with your Uppercasing. I has no point at all.
monthly,weekly,daily,hourly is nice.. and makes no difference at all.
Remember: the filesystem is not ment for graphical presentation ;)

   - Bjornar